Best Book of 2005

[roguespirit]

So looking back at the year what has been the book that you have enjoyed the most or has had the most profound effect on you.

Now I've asked the question I can't remember what I read.

But I loved Cloud Atlas and The Time Traveller's Wife actually made me cry.

What did it for you?

[thehod]

I know it was released ages ago, but for my Koushun Takami's Battle Royale was fantastic.

I only bought it in November, and Im on my third reading.

[Jay]

My favorite books published in 2005:

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Never let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vellum by Hal Duncan
Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
Yume Me Hone: Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
Eternity and Other Stories by Lucius Shepard
Learning the World by Ken Macleod
Kafka by the Shore - Haruki Murakami (I read the Japanese version several years ago, but this was the first english edition)
From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
In the Palace of Repose by Holly Phillips
A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
Looking for Jake by China Mieville
The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
Tumbling After by Paul Witcover
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
Starwater Strains by Gene Wolfe
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Mothers and Other Monsters by Maureen Mchugh
Sanity and the Lady by Brian Aldiss
The Emperor of Gondwanaland: And Other Stories by Paul di Filippo
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
Ilium by Dan Simmons
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Ii also read some books coming out in 2006 I really like:

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker

Current enjoying Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell

[cactusmaac]

A Feast For Crows by George RR Martin.

[Parallax48]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling.

[Slam_Bradley]

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.


But to be fair, I've probably only read three books from 2005.

[Spot]

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.


But to be fair, I've probably only read three books from 2005.

haha, your lucky! im still stuck in 95 trying to get caught up!

[bitplayer]

Probably the book I enjoyed the most was the knight by wolfe.

The one that Ill probably remember the most was the forgotten soldier by Guy Sajer. Which is memoir of a half german half french soldier on the eastern front in wwii and talk about brutal. Parts of it are unbelievable.

[stealthwise]

I'm always amazed at how many books some people will read, and I'm an English student.

I really dug Anansi Boys, not sure if I read any others from 2005.